Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary Edition, Qobuz Hi-Res. This sounds great! What a treasure. |
I broke down and decided to give Roon a try. I picked up a Roon Nucleus so that I could use it as a streamer and move my Aqua La Voce S3 DAC into my main system. My two TEAC NT-505 streamer/DACs became Roon endpoints and one moved to my computer system.
I listened to a bunch of reference tracks last night and have to say that the interface is a lot better than BubbleUPnP and the Lumin app. Roon brings my ripped library, Qobuz, and Tidal into one interface (no more switching from Qobuz to Tidal to foobar2000 when listening on the computer) and I can use my best DAC in my main system. I also like how it offers a "radio" option and more information about what you're listening to.
This morning it "suggested" the new Yes release - Quest. As much as I dislike the idea of paying just for the software to listen to my music sources when they all come with free software and BubbleUPnP was less than 5 bucks, I have to admit Roon is pretty cool. Which I'm sure a lot of you already know. I'm just stubborn sometimes. |
Steely Dan - Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!, Qobuz Hi-Res |
Neil Young - Carnegie Hall 1970. Acoustic solo Neil. Pretty cool! |
Checking out the new stuff on Qobuz today... Craig Taborn - Shadow Plays |
Beck - Sea Change, Qobuz. OMG, it's MP3! |
I heard an MP3 and I liked it! |
Joy Crookes - Skin, Qobuz Hi-Res. Her voice reminds me of Amy Winehouse. |
Lilly Hiatt - Lately, Qobuz Hi-Res, some great songwriting and excellent performances. |
Santana - Blessings and Miracles, Qobuz Hi-Res. The opening seems to be a re-imagining of Abraxas and the rest of the album, with all the guest appearances, seems like an attempt at another Supernatural, neither of which are necessarily bad things. His playing is as good as ever and there are some great tunes. |
Finneas - Optimist, Qobuz Hi-Res. Billie Eilish's brother, co-writer, and producer. He's got some chops! |
The Beatles - Let It Be, Qobuz Hi-Res |
Johnny Cash - Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968, Qobuz
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In My Dreams - Novecento with Billy Cobham, Tidal |
Checking out Qobuz new releases this morning and clicked play on Karen Dalton - In My Own Time, which I had never heard of. Wow! What a unique voice! Probably a love it or hate it thing, but worth checking out.
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Radiohead - Kid A Mnesia, Qobuz. I swear, the hair on the back of my neck stood up (in a good way) hearing the opening notes of Everything In Its Right Place. |
I don't stream......
I don't golf, but I don't go on golf forums and post that I don't golf. Doh!
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Air - 10,000 Hz Legend, Qobuz Hi-Res. This is pretty cool, maybe what it would sound like if you dropped Radiohead, Beck, Kraftwerk, and Daft Punk into a blender...
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Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, Qobuz Hi-Res. Very "atmospheric" and relaxing. If your system throws a big soundstage this is a fun listen.
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise the Roof, Qobuz Hi-Res
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@noske Thanks for sharing that, very cool! I think it's a great pairing and they both are great writers.
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Oscar Peterson - A Time for Love: The Oscar Peterson Quartet Live in Helsinki, 1987, Qobuz Hi-Res. This is also available as one of the Black Friday RSD releases. Great recording!
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Dominique Fils-Aimé - Three Little Words, Qobuz Hi-Res. She came up in one of my Tidal "My Mix" playlists. Check out her Nameless release, some great acapella including a really cool interpretation of Feeling Good.
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Weezer - SZNZ Spring. Interesting concept, this is an EP project with a new EP to be released for the next three seasons. I pre-ordered the vinyl and it included a 256kbps MP3 download. Sound quality is decent, but I was mainly interested in hearing the songs to see if I like them. I do.
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Deep Purple - Turning to Crime, Tidal. This is a pretty fun release, all covers.
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Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting), Qobuz
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Brian Eno - Another Green World, Qobuz
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Wet Leg - Wet Leg, Qobuz. This is a lot of fun and these ladies have great voices.
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Ann Wilson - Fierce Bliss, Qobuz. I really like this so far, it's a little more rocking than anything from Heart in recent memory and includes a really cool cover of Bridge of Sighs.
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The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention, Qobuz. This sounded very familiar, turns out it's a side project for Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. A little more rocking than Radiohead, but certainly not a total departure.
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Bruce Hornsby - 'Flicted, Qobuz. I really like this, it's light and breezy but deep at the same time. Production is excellent. It feels like he's experiencing a similar late career creative burst like David Crosby.
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Ozzy - Patient Number 9. Qobuz. He's still got it!
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Dire Straits - Money for Nothing - Qobuz
I started listening to this remastered greatest hits collection on my system last night and it sounded so different from what I remember that I stopped it just a minute or two into Sultans of Swing. My initial reaction was that it was so far from the original that it was distracting.
I thought I'd give it another listen this morning on my second system and I think what I was hearing last night was a lot of extra detail that I hadn't noticed before in other versions, including my MFSL vinyl copies of the individual albums.
After giving it another chance, I really like it. The instrument separation, vocal clarity, and dynamics seem really good to me and it still conveys a lot of feeling, especially on songs like Private Investigations and Brothers In Arms.
Curious what others think.
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Minions: The Rise of Gru - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Qobuz
This is great! At least what I've heard so far... I'm about halfway through it. Some great re-workings of classic 70's rock and disco songs by modern artists.
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The new releases for the week are out on Qobuz and there's a reissue of Cake's Fashion Nugget which is one of my all time favorite albums. I recognize that Cake may fall in the "love them or hate them" category, but I happen to love their deadpan sardonic wit and crafty musicianship. It's also out on vinyl, which I'm really excited about.
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Laura Veirs - Found Light, Qobuz Hi-Res. I love her voice and songwriting!
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Alan Parsons - From The New World, Qobuz. This has that classic Alan Parsons Project sound, but not much grabbed me, the songwriting and performances are a little too much in soft rock territory for me. Sounds great though and would certainly make great background music.
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Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath 1970-1980 - Various Artists, Qobuz
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Ty Segall - Hello Hi, Qobuz. I haven't checked his work out before. I have to say I like it!
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Let's Turn It Into Sound, Qobuz. This is a new discovery for me. She has a few albums out and I'm looking forward to taking a deeper dive into her music. It doesn't hurt that she's a local Pacific Northwest artist.
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Shemekia Copeland - Done Come Too Far, Qobuz. Hard hitting contemporary blues.
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Spotify played some S.T.P. in the car while I was driving home last night and I had to fire up Purple on the big rig when I got home.
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CCR - At The Royal Albert Hall, Qobuz
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John Paul Jones - The Thunderthief. One of the songs came up in my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist and I recognized Robert Fripp playing on it and decided to check out the whole album. It's pretty good and has some great guitar work by Fripp.
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@curiousjim It's been a while since I checked in with uberwaltz, but at last contact he was doing fine. He has found better things to do than post on Audiogon.
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